Re: Tutorial: Query the Apple database with Python for your access point BSSID

Jeff,

> Adding location information to DNS, DHCP, SNMP etc have been proposed.
...
> An early scheme is RFC 1712

proposed in 1994.  Its now more than 36 years later (which is, for 
technology, a loooong time), and nothing like it has been implemented.


Maybe that is because there is no automated way to determine the "floor 
number".   Especially for devices which task it is to do DNS, DHCP and so 
on - those do not even contain hardware to determine their own X/Y location.

I must say that that RFC does have a joke smell to it.  You know, like the 
"I'm a teapot" HTTP status, the "evil bit" for ethernet packets and lets not 
forget "IP over avian carriers" (which, by the way /does/ work).

And although most/all smartphones do have a GPS, those are notoriously bad 
at determing elevation (which is not really a surprise, if you look at where 
the GPS satelites are located in relation to the GPS receiver).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser